CFP for 2025 Online Conference
Proposal Deadline: September 5th, 2025
Conference Dates: November 7th & 8th, 2025
The Creative Writing Studies Organization is now accepting proposals for our online fall conference, to be held the weekend of November 7, 2025.
Our conference team has decided to shift to holding our conference virtually in alternating years. This arrangement will allow us to continue building Creative Writing Studies scholarship across borders and time zones while maintaining the felt benefits of in-person gatherings, which we so enjoyed last fall in Blacksburg.
This year, the CWSC seeks proposals that help us expand and refine our understandings of relationality.
Proposals might engage with ideas such as:
- Radical Kinship & Belonging: How do we create inclusive classroom communities? In what ways does creative writing build empathy and enhance relationships between humans across space, lived experiences, and time?
- Algorithmic Predictability: If a piece of writing generated by a large language model is relatable to its data-training set, how do human writers reimagine relatability? What is “relatable” in creative writing? (When? How? To whom?)
- Craft: In what ways can creative work embody expansive relationality through hybrid genres, digital spaces, or nontraditional process or publishing?
- (Inter)Disciplinarity: What kinds of relationships can we envision building between creative writing and other disciplines? What relations are formed in creative writing and creative writing scholarship?